Written by

Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY

CANNES, France - Surprising cameo roles are nothing new to the Cannes Film Festival. One of 2013's finest is Chad Michael Murray playing a small yet pivotal and tragic role in the gritty Fruitvale Station.

The film stars Michael B. Jordan in the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old California Bay Area resident who had a lethal run-in with transit police on New Year's Day 2008.

Murray portrays the cop who sends the story into the tragic realm. ...